Fedora Media Writer
Fedora Media Writer is recommended for making bootable flash drives for Fedora Linux images.
Use Ventoy
Ventoy is the best graphical tool for making bootable flash drives currently. However, Ventoy doesn't always work. For example, Ventoy is not compatible with Universal Blue Linux images.
Use the Command dd or cat
You can use
dd if=path_to_linux_image of=path_to_device bs=4M; sync
or
cat path_to_linux_image > path_to_device
to write a hybird Linux image into a flash drive.
Note that you
must use the whole device
(e.g., /dev/sdb)
not just a partition (e.g., /dev/sdb1)
on the device.
For a non-hybrid Linux image,
you can make it hybid using the following command
if it uses isolinux/syslinux technology.
isohybird path_to_linux_image
Be very careful when you run the above 2 commands
(dd and cat)
,
as they will erase the whole target device you specify.
Accidentally providing a wrong device will make you lose all data on it!
Use the Command zcat
This is an even more manual way, which is not recommended.
- `zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX
- Mount the USB stick and copy a iso image to it.
- Umount the USB stick.
Use the GUI Tool UNetbootin
-
Ventoy is a much better tool than UNetbootin now. Please use Ventoy instead.
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If you create a boot flash drive for Ubuntu in Windows using UNetbootin or other softwares, then you'd better format the flash drive as
FATinstead ofFAT32. Otherwise, you might get the error information: "BOOTMGR is missing".
Use the Universal Online Booting Tool netboot.me
Note that you must have an ethernet connection in order to use netboot.me. netboot.me is a fantastic tool for general purposes, but it has problems on some old computers.